Nobody seems to get that playing garbage OOC does not work for Pitt.
Others that are always and already highly ranked, that are going to usually have at las least as good to better talent throughout their season… yes it is solid if cynical strategy. Start 3-0 and likely in the top 15 or higher. Gaming a bad system that was always fixed in their favor to begin with, works for them.
We on the other hand, that start the season ranked 50th or such … we either struggle or outright lose to these bad teams (and thus sink totally out of the stratosphere of rankings, never to return)…
…or at BEST the opponent is REALLY bad like Furman or Wofford or whatever it was we just played; we beat them by a deceptively high score; still don’t raise much if at all in the rankings; then we find ourselves utterly unprepared when we an actual opponent. We our heads smacked like in the Cincy game, and having had no real prep throughout camp or the first ‘game’ can’t react it.
If you want to say play three Woffords, in stead of ‘juggernauts’ like garbage Cincy and WVU, great, you are just postponing the inevitable. And as this season shows, it might not even work. Akron and Bowling Green would beat us with this QB.
And let’s not forget the attendance and ratings factors. Zero point zero interest playing the terrible opponents.
Better just to play as decent teams as we can. As Wolfie says here, be bold enough to buy the best players and coaches possible and a manly gameplan to compete against anyone you play, regardless of quality. The scheme of playing tomato cans just doesn’t work for us.
